Purpose-built for higher education
ScholarStudio develops focused digital tools for university teaching. Each one addresses a concrete part of academic practice—from knowing who is in the room to turning spoken commentary into useful written feedback.
The current suite
ScholarStudio is not a single application with a shared login. Each tool has its own workspace and sign-in, suited to the people and information it handles.
Run attendance and engagement within the same class session. ECG supports student check-in and participatory classroom activities, giving lecturers a clearer view of presence and participation as a lecture unfolds.
Open ECGSpeak naturally while reviewing student work, then turn those observations into clear, structured written feedback. The process retains the nuance and personality of spoken response while improving organisation and readability.
Open Feedback RefineryYou will sign in, where required, after opening the relevant tool.
The approach
Each tool begins with a recognisable academic task. Features are added when they improve that task, not simply because the technology makes them possible.
Attendance data and assessment feedback have different users and different responsibilities. Separate tools keep their workflows and access controls clear.
ScholarStudio can organise, clarify and reduce administrative friction. The academic decisions—and responsibility for them—remain with the lecturer.
Blog
The ScholarStudio blog will collect practical notes about using the apps, reflections on classroom problems and explanations of the choices behind particular features.
Posts will examine what the tools make possible, where they need refinement and how lecturers can adapt them to their own teaching. The aim is not product publicity dressed up as advice, but an honest account of designing and using small tools in real academic settings.
About us
ScholarStudio is a small software company making focused products for higher education. We are not a large technology firm trying to make one platform serve every possible institution. Our products begin with specific classroom problems and are developed close to the people who will actually use them.
That means paying attention to the ordinary conditions of academic work: large classes, limited time, uneven connectivity, substantial feedback workloads and the need for tools that remain intelligible when a lecture is already under way.
Mark holds a PhD in Linguistics from Leiden University and has taught and researched in higher education for more than two decades. Linguistics brings a particular outlook to product development: close attention to structure, meaning, interaction and the points at which communication breaks down. Classroom experience supplies the practical test. A product must do more than demonstrate an interesting idea—it must solve a real problem for lecturers and students under real teaching conditions.
Questions or feedback can be sent to mark@scholarstudio.org.
